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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Le Croissant

I'm just back from my long weekend in Oslo and the first thing I did was to buy a croissant and photograph it for today's CDP theme day: "a typical breakfast". In France, we don't eat croissants every morning, (well, some do, but face the same problems as Knut in Berlin!), but more on Saturday or Sunday mornings. Not all croissants are good, however. Some are not even worth the trip to La Boulangerie, but some are to die for. Just for you my dear visitors, here is the hit parade of the best croissants in Paris (make sure you go to the bottom of the article). You will see that Pierre Hermé is the best, apparently, but I've never tried any of his croissants... yet.

96 CDP bloggers participate in this theme day today so if you want to see what people eat fro Breakfast in Manila, Moscow or Rabaul (which, as you all know is located in Papua New Guinea!), well pay them a visit.

I like croissants for breakfast. I also dont eat it every morning..maybe once a year:) But its just because I prefer the Hungarian csiga:) Anyway..the main point is that a breakfast for me has to be sweet.

Shows how life seems at Cheltenham at the moment - i had no idea it was theme day. I do love croissants, but like you, would not eat them often. The one in your pic looks gorgeous. How do we non-French recognise the best croissants, Eric? What should we look for? mmmm i could do with one right now.

Le Croissant defines France, or at least a small part of France, in the minds of the world ... I like "Le Cordon Bleu" in your photo as well. I'll have to Google it to find out why it sounds so familiar.

I am sure I will be attacked by the French militia when I say that my favorite croissants come from Sam's bakery right here in Lexington. I freeze them. Take them from the freezer as needed. Cut them while still frozen like a bun. Toast themin the toaster oven. That and coffee along with some of my homemade strawberry jam make a perfect breakfast. In Paris we love the ones from Miss Manon bakery chain.

I eat at Kayser all the time because it is near my layover hotel, but their croissants? fahgedaboutit(crazy about their nut bread,have 3 loaves in my freezer now in PHX)...Laduree is #24 on the list??....and after Paul's?????? Sacre Bleu. Off with Figaro's head.

Yes Keropok Man, Le Cordon Bleu is a famous cooking school for aspiring chefs. For aspiring tourists (or locals) who just want to say that they've been there, you can even take a 3 hour course on something like deserts, wines, cheese, etc.

Your breakfast looks delicious! But what about poor little Knute? No more croissants EVER? So sad. Any bloggers in the vicinity should run over and sneak him a few, preferably with chocolate. Perhaps a nice cafe au lait, too, since he is still a baby.

I can understand this lavendarlady. And you know what? Sometimes you have to take what is at hand and crave the things you can't have for that next holiday in France. Anyway, eggs and bacon aren't so bad either. In fact...

Fascinating to me to read that the French don't necessarily eat a croissant everyday. I'd long thought this. I've included a link to you today on Menton DP so others can read about croissants. For Monte Carlo DP, I could only find people drinking coffee and smoking a cigarette!

I share your concern about Knut, once you've had good croissants how could you live without them! Here you can buy things masquerading as croissants in the grocery store, but you must find a french bakery to get the real thing.

I took a two hour demonstration course at Le Cordon Bleu June 20th(You get to eat what they cook and are also given a glass of wine.) but they do not sell food, they sell their cookbooks.Eric, did you take their breadbaking workshop and photographed the croissant on the linen or did you, heaven forbid, STEAL the serviette from somewhere?LOL.

Croissants are indeed a wonderful thing to have for breakfast. It's unbelievably difficult to find a "good" croissant in the U.S. (in my opinion!). I have duly noted your Paris croissant list and will be armed with it when I visit Paris someday!

Eric, you say you bought "a croissant"? So what are those crumbs from, eh? Well, thank you for saving one for us! A wonderful photo, with the towel giving it even more a sense of place. Two of my student's parents in San Francisco owned a French bakery and made the best brioche. I became addicted to those for breakfast for quite some time. Croissants became a "hit" food here in the states in the 1980s, but the fad was replaced by bagles, and now I don't know what the "hit" breakfast food is elsewhere, but here in Seattle it is currently Top Pot doughnuts. . .not my cup of tea, I'm afraid.-Kim

> Johnny. "I am sure I will be attacked by the French militia when I say that my favorite croissants come from Sam's bakery right here in Lexington." YES! LOL

> phx-cdg. ""Pierre Herme? Isn't that the place I had to take a loan out just to buy a macaron?" LOL. And your husband forgot "and where I had to wait on line 45 minutes to be granted the right to buy my pastry..." Yes, that's the one!

> Zanabel. No but I ate it right after I took the photo LOL!

> Michael. "A boiled egg is hard to beat..." That was funny!

> Jules. "Here in Rabaul I have to eat what falls from the trees and there isn't a croissant in sight!!!!". Stop, I'll start crying!